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The ninth Carcanet collection from one of the finest living English poets.

The poet gathers ghosts and brings them into earshot. There are elegies in which the daily world of chores and small events offers its consolations. In 'The Apparent Colonnades', connections between artifact and life, and between individual lives, are probed.

The latest collection from the author of Poetry the Basics (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.

The title poem is accompanied by the 24-part sequence "Free Rein", with its broad political and human perspectives. The author has also written "Heart's Desire" (1978) and "Selected Poems" (1985).

History proposes and disposes of its patterns. Behind all this there may be a 'hidden order' - and that is both a hope and a fear. Does God help us to understand any of this? Does Art? Is the 'soul' a sanctuary?

This collection of Jeffrey Wainwright's poetry brings together most of his first collection, a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and much of what he has written since that time. The poems confront a wide range of intellectual, personal, and political experiences.

Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is sorrowing, angry, satiric or erotic. It shows how Hill's words are never lightly 'acceptable' but an ethical act, how he seeks out words he can stand by - words that a...

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Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any reader can understand and gain more pleasure from poetry.

Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date

Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with history, philosophy, religion, art and music.

Features five poems that develop the physicist Richard Feynman's proposition that through scientific study 'we may be able to reduce the number of different things'. This title also includes other poems that ponder infinity and number.